One of the greatest automotive films is Claude Lelouch's C'etait un Rendezvous, a nine-minute high-speed run through the streets of Paris ending with the hero getting the girl. French rally driver Jean Ragnotti paid tribute with his own drive through Paris, only with a slightly different ending.

The exploding flowers bit is pretty goofy, even for 1981, but we still love Jean Ragnotti. His claim to fame was that he beat the all-powerful four-wheel-drive Audi Quattros and won the storied Rallye Monte Carlo with a rorty rear-drive Renault R5 Turbo. That was in 1981, too, and the winning car was just like the one you see him driving in this video.